Sausage and Bean Slow Cooker Dinner

This hearty slow cooker dinner will fill your kitchen with a delicious aroma and isn't that same old chicken and cream-of-something slow cooker meal. Serve it with a crisp green salad and a loaf of crunchy bread for a stick-to-your-ribs dinner. This tastes better the longer it cooks, so letting it cook on Low for an entire work day will only improve the taste.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 4 hr
• Total Time: 4 hr 15 mins
• Calories: 392 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 ½ cups beef stock
• 1 pound pork sausage links
• 2 tablespoons tomato puree
• 1 (14 ounce) can kidney beans, rinsed and drained
• 1 (14 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
• 1 (14.5 ounce) can tomatoes
• 1 tablespoon hot pepper sauce (such as Tabasco®) (Optional)
• 4 carrots, cut in chunks

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook the sausage until well browned, 5 to 7 minutes.

Step 2

Stir in the onion; cook and stir until lightly browned, 5 to 7 minutes more.

Step 3

Remove the sausages, and cut them into 1 1/2-inch to 2-inch pieces.

Step 4

Pour the beef stock, tomatoes, tomato puree, and hot sauce into the skillet with the onion and bring the mixture to a simmer, scraping up any brown bits from the bottom.

Step 5

Place the carrots into a slow cooker, followed by the garbanzo beans and kidney beans.

Step 6

Arrange the sausage pieces on top.

Step 7

Pour the sauce from the skillet into the slow cooker.

Step 8

Cook on Low for 4 to 6 hours.